I touch JS that uses var heavily on a daily basis and I would be incredibly surprised to find out that I am alone in that.

That is indeed why I added qualifiers to "everyone" and "never".

This is exactly the sort of error that a human with a slightly incorrect mental model for something makes all the time.

It’s not LLM-generated, just simple plagiarism and bad editing. Click through to the quoted tweet at the start of the article and you’ll get the article with less awkward English and without the bolted-on conclusion. In the original tweet that sentence is:

  Kevin Hochman took over Chili’s in 2022 and did the opposite of what Red Robin did. He simplified the menu, invested in operations, launched a $10.99 “3 for Me” deal that went viral on TikTok, and let the food speak for itself.

Garry’s contribution was to replace the commas with periods.

Wow you're right, it really is plagiarism. The original tweet: https://xcancel.com/aakashgupta/status/2024365923856240790

The original tweet is heavily AI-assisted.

That was not at all the universal response to the iphone. http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone is a (nsfw) contemporary article that I agreed with at the time, and I knew a decent number of people who got an early iphone and then switched back to a blackberry.

Well some people are stubborn but most do the switch to better designed items. So its not really subjective, the initial knee jerk reaction is but the more reasoned response after a few years isn't very subjective.

I've worked on software where we had multiple maintained release branches and we always just worked off master and then cut long-lived release branches from master at some point. Once a branch was cut we'd never merge master into it again and instead backport just specific fixes, which is quite different from git-flow.

Large GitHub PRs are miserably slow even with a maxed out Mac Studio on gigabit fiber with single-digit ms ping to their server. It’s not an example of something that works well on high-end hardware but scales down poorly.

The eight round interviews are incredibly stupid from the hiring side as well. My job’s thankfully not gone quite that far, but I’ve had a bunch of hiring panels where I don’t have anything to add that the four other people who interviewed the candidate didn’t already cover and my involvement in the process was just a complete waste of time.

I would have guessed a much higher number, and the number possibly being as low as 4% seems like good news to me.

The entire point of having multiple branches of government is that they have different powers.

There are both different powers and similar powers between the different branches.

And to some extent it got less entertaining as it got higher quality.